Remembering Your First Desktop...

[Halo]

Do you remember your first EVER desktop?

I do - it's an old 486DX CPU with 4MB EDO RAM, stagnant sound card and video card with a generic CD-ROM. With it is a 14" monitor complete with the clackety on/off toggle switch, a keyboard that's almost heavier than a mini skateboard, and a wired Compaq mouse, which I believe is the only pride point left in there.

[Sulimo]

386, With an acual CD-rom drive that stoped working after a year or so, and some other specs i don't remember.
Great stuff, Windows 3.11 or what was it

[Fangled]

I forgot, but my first home was a Windows ME computer system 400Mhz,64mb RAM ect.

[carol]

Originally Posted by Fangled

I forgot, but my first home was a Windows ME computer system 400Mhz,64mb RAM ect.

Let's see...

First system was a Tandy 1000
Then a 286... the network card was BNC only and about a foot and a half long
Then came the P75 with 8MB of RAM and a 1MB video card.. that was upgraded to a P100 with 24MB of RAM..
Then a P3 800 (another big jump)
and then my 2500+

Currently we've got:
2500+ 768MB RAM, 128MB Video, 400GB storage
1.42Ghz PPC (Mac) w/ 256MB RAM, 64MB Video and 80GB Storage
2600+ 256MB RAM and 80GB Storage
350Mhz PPC w/ 128MB RAM
300Mhz PPC w/ 32MB RAM (Laptop)
2.2Ghz Pentium Mobile Laptop - 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD
133Mhz 486 Soekris setup running m0n0wall.

[Charger]

The first PC I got I built myself. I was working and living at home at the time so had plenty of spare cash. I bought all the most expensive/fastest components I could find and it added up to around £2000. I ended up with a screamingly fast (or so I thought at the time) Pentium 200 MMX with 32 Mb Ram, 3.2 Gb hard drive, 4mb graphics card, 4x CDROM...

[modric]

My first: 386 with Win 3.1. Sound card didn't work, I opened the box -- and became a PC maker and reseller from then...
My first touch of computer ever: In a company I worked, a coworker had a PC without a CD. I bought a brand new 4x speed Mitsumi CD and built it in with one move (with just reading a tutorial).

[MadKad]

mine was

P4 thats all I know about the cpu
256mb RAM
80GB HDD
CD Rom
CD RW
Floppy

That was it, It was £1400 lol top of the range with windows xp home on it so really it wasnt that old, in fact we still have it but none of the parts are the same lol just the case.

[modric]

First computer I've ever seen was ZX81 and then ZX Spectrum. These machines looked just like today's notebooks. If you wanted to load a program on the computer you had to do it from a cassete driver. Programs were all on cassetes. ZX Spectrum was mainly for games and for first programmers. They were not costly - about $100 or so.

[jeffery]

My first home pc was PII 400. With 128mb of ram and s3 graphic card and C media built in sound card. I get that about 5 years back and lost that after working properly 2year due to short circuit.

[ColinM]

My first is a 386 running on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with 8MB RAM... kinda slow and then upgraded to a 486 shortly after. I played a lot of games in that one, and I don't know if any of you guys recall that game called Exile II: Ruined World.

Honestly I miss Windows 3.11 more than my system

That reminds me.. I ought to play that game again, just for a nostalgic ride!